A three day intensive seminar, "Revolutionary Change Session" offered by the Race, Poverty and Media Justice Institute (RPMJ) at POOR Magazine. This session is designed for conscious folk with race, class and/or education privilege from across the globe who are interested in exploring. implementing and practicing truly revolutionary expressions of giving, equity sharing and change–making.

How is wealth distributed across the Globe? Who actively decides how and where resources go? And how does one actually de–fund the Non–Profit Industrial Complex. As conscious peoples questioning, working on or actively participating in the just redistribution of resources, it is time to practice a new model of equity– sharing, financial decision–making and resource division.

The Revolutionary Change Session is a three day intensive moment in herstory aimed at cleansing, shaking, enervating, reinvigorating, de–bullshit–izing, un–entangling, bringing you to back to your own truth/spirit and real–ness, life–changing session.

We deconstruct the lies intrinsic in philanthropy, reconstruct the truths of humanity, care–giving, sharing and community and practice a new form of equity sharing we at POOR Magazine call, Revolutionary Giving.

About Revolutionary Giving:

POOR Magazine is proud to introduce a solution to the Non–Profit Industrial Complex and the exclusionary hierarchy of U.S. philanthropy; Revolutionary Giving. As an indigenous people led/poor people led non–profit, grassroots, arts organization we have long been critical of the classist, racist, model of philanthropy that perpetuates the deserving versus undeserving notion of caregiving, service provision and charity.

This notion turns people's pain and struggle into a product, pits the poor against the poorest and ultimately inhibits, silences and destroys the spirit, culture, art, language, and voices of poor people, indigenous people, and cultures of color across the globe. This damaging notion is pervasive in institutions and systems in the US, from the Prison Industrial Complex to the Non–Profit Industrial Complex, from the education system to the welfare System, it is how these harmful systems can continue to operate, it is how these systems can "profit" from our poverty without ever truly working towards change, access to equity, resources, civil, economic and human rights for all.

From POOR Magazine's perspective, we believe that giving and donating for the giver or donor is not a privilege, an option, or a nice idea, rather, it is a duty. A duty of people with class and/or race privilege, to give their time, their surplus income, their equity, and/or their support, towards change for people struggling with poverty in the US and across the globe.

A SAMPLE Of 2008–09 CORE SEMINARS

Deconstructing Case Management; Reconstructing Real Service
Provision

This session explores several aspects of the Western psychological
notion of “independence and individuation” and how these concepts shape
our frame of sanity and pathology in the ways that individuals,
families and communities are evaluated, pathologized, criminalized and
treated. In contrast we will present indigenous values of
interdependence as a value and model for evaluation, healing and
caregiving. Finally this session will present new models of treatment
through art, social justice and restoration for families, individuals
and elders in poverty.

A HISTORICAL AND HERSTORICAL REVIEW OF POVERTY, RACISM,
DISABILITY, CRIMINALIZATION AND SERVICE PROVISION

SEPARATION VERSUS RESTORATION: CONFRONTING THE WESTERN MODEL OF
FAMILY CRISIS TREATMENT AND INSTITUTING CARE–GIVING AND HEALING

It Takes a Village to Raise a Classroom: Multi–generational
teaching and
learning in a 21st Century classroom.

How do we transform the rigid, linear, mono–generational classroom
into a multi–generational,
multi–cultural , multi–lingual, space of inclusion, eldership and
community where parents and community elders are valued for their
scholarship, their languages, cultures and leadership. Conversely, how
do we use art and media to promote student and family leadership and
community consciousness that not only cultivates powerful teaching and
learning but sustains the community around the school in the face of
violence, gentrification, border fascism, redevelopment,homelessness
and poverty.

Default Colonizers, 21st Century Missionaries and The Fetishization
Of Global Poverty and Activism

In this session we look at the role of US to global “activism”,
media production and organizing and the transubstantive
errors of cross–class, cross–cultural activism, media production
and development.

CONNECTING THE GLOBAL TO LOCAL POVERTY DOTS – REVISIONING LOCAL
TO
GLOBAL ORGANIZING

ANALYZING THE MYTHS/PRIVILEGE OF TRAVEL

Challenging Academia, Media and Research

The worlds of academia, research and media has a rigid notion of who
should be heard, what is a scholar and what is considered a valid form
of data collection, media production and research. In this section, the
poverty, race, disability, youth, migrant and indigenous scholars
challenge the rigid concept of the canon, of scholarship itself and who
should be heard and recognized.

THE MYTH OF OBJECTIVITY: THE REVOLUTION BEGINS WITH “I”

LANGUAGE DOMINATION AND THE ROOTS OF LINGUISTIC PRIVILEGE IN
MEDIA , POLICY, RESEARCH AND DATA COLLECTION

JOURNALISM AS VOYEURISM: THE PRIVILEGE OF AUTHORSHIP, BY–LINE AND
THE ROLE OF WRITER FACILITATION

POETRY, HIP HOP AND ART AS MEDIA: EXPANDING OUR NOTIONS OF
JOURNALISM AND MEDIA PRODUCTION

Revolutionary Fundraising and Development

How do people with resources (money, endowments, trust funds, et al)
by default, get to choose who gets funded? How
does the role of hundreds of years of colonization, land theft,
imperialization and capitalization play into that privilege?
How does the mere fact that some people have money make them default
“scholars”? In this section we revision
poor communities of color as scholars, donor collaborators, co–funders
as well as teach new ways for people with privilege
to approach truly revolutionary funding and development.